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Originally Posted by ruddell
...Yes, Calibre lets you do this - and quite well. But it functions the same as the page numbers Amazon provides on the Kindle books...
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Yes, and then again, no.
While the calibre generated pages numbers
display the same as Amazon's, they are quite different in reality.
Calibre's faux page numbers are generated based on numbers of bytes in the data file, in much the same way as the Mobi/Kindle Location numbers and the ADE faux page numbers seen in many ePub readers. Calibre's data blocks are much larger than those used for Locations and are much more like the size of those used by ADE.
The Amazon/Kindle supplied page numbers are real page numbers. They aren't page numbers in the ebook as ebooks do not have pages and hence can't really have their own page numbers. They are the real page numbers for some printed edition of the same title. The specific printed edition is identified by ISBN. This method is accurate for scholarly references, as are MOBI Locations. Systems that count "screens", even when they are called "pages" as in LRF readers, are useless for scholarly referencing.
Personally, I'm fine with Locations. I'm intelligent enough to not need the count to be labeled "pages", or to I need the numbers to resemble a data block similar in size to any particular page size in some printed book from the previous millennium. I've read ebooks for long enough (~20 years overall and MOBI format for over a decade) that Locations are a meaningful to me as pages.